Two Blankets, Three Sheets, A Towel, A Pillow, and A Pillowcase - Brossura

Al Galidi, Rodaan

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ISBN 10: 164286045X ISBN 13: 9781642860450

Casa editrice: World Edtns Llc, 2020

Riassunto

Based on the authors true story, this is the account of Iraqi refugee Samir, who spends nine years in an asylum center in the Netherlands.
"Two Blankets, Three Sheets does for the beleaguered political asylum seeker stuck in legal limbo what Joseph Hellers Catch-22 did for the hapless soldier trapped in a military at war…Translated from the Dutch into nimble and conversational English by Jonathan Reeder…it is a tale for and of our time."Rayyan Al-Shawaf, Los Angeles Review of BooksAmsterdam Airport, 1998. Samir Karim steps off a plane from Vietnam, flushes his fake passport down the toilet, and requests asylum. Fleeing Iraq to avoid conscription into Saddam Husseins army, he has spent seven years anonymously wandering through Asia. Now, safely in the heart of Europe, he is sent to an asylum center and assigned a bed in a shared dormwhere he will spend the next nine years. As he navigates his way around the absurdities of Dutch bureaucracy, Samir tries his best to get along with his 500 new housemates. Told with compassion and a unique sense of humor, this is an inspiring tale of survival, a close-up view of the hidden world of refugees and human smugglers, and a sobering reflection of our times.

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Informazioni sull'autore

RODAAN AL GALIDI is a poet and writer. Born in Iraq and trained as a civil engineer, he has lived in the Netherlands since 1998. As an undocumented asylum seeker, he did not have the right to attend language classes, so he taught himself to read and write Dutch. His novel The Autist and the Carrier Pigeon won the European Union Prize for Literature in 2011the same year he failed his Dutch citizenship course. Two Blankets, Three Sheets, already a bestseller in the Netherlands, is his most successful novel to date.

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A humorous account of a nine-year waitAmsterdam Airport, 1998. Samir Karim steps off a plane from Vietnam, flushes his fake passport down the toilet, and requests asylum. Fleeing Iraq to avoid conscription into Saddam Husseins army, he has spent seven years anonymously wandering through Asia. Now, safely in the heart of Europe, he is sent to an asylum center and assigned a bed in a shared dormwhere he will spend the next nine years. As he navigates his way around the absurdities of Dutch bureaucracy, Samir tries his best to get along with his 500 new housemates. Told with compassion and a unique sense of humor, this is an inspiring tale of survival, a close-up view of the hidden world of refugees and human smugglers, and a sobering reflection of our times.Two Blankets, Three Sheets is a valuable and rich novel about fear, uncertainty, arbitrariness, and hopelessness, written by someone who was, thankfully, able to use his new language as a lifebuoy. TZUMIn all its tragedy of miscommunication, loss of identity and of meaning of life, humiliations, and incapacity to truly connect, it is also a very light and humorous book. LITERAIR NEDERLAND

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: World Edtns Llc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 164286045X
• ISBN 13: 9781642860450
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 396
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile